Yelets. To all volost committees of the poor of Yelets district.
Circular No.
September 17, 1918/*

I have received your telegrams.1

It is impossible to confine ourselves to general and indefinite expressions, which far too often conceal complete failure in the work. Weekly exact figures are necessary: first, which volosts precisely, what exactly portion of surplus grain they have collected and how much they have delivered; second, how many exactly puds of grain have been delivered in which exactly elevators and grain storage barns.

Without such data all the rest is empty verbiage. Report more precisely.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.

1 The telegrams of the committees of the poor were a response to Lenin's letter to S. P. Serebryakov (see the preceding document).